Solstice morning walk

[Fluxus]

And a happy winter solstice to one and all.
Beautiful morning here - no fog to be seen just the hardest frost of the year.
Lots of beautiful tracks and light through the trees.
I took some pics like this one:

you can see the rest in a public album here

Have a good day - longer days from now on in!
Flux

 

[CheeseMonster]

Very purdy

 

[Toddy]

Bright Solstice to you too
It's lovely here as well, nippy but dry and bright, and for some reason full of birdsong

Nice photies!

Cheers,
Toddy

 

[Spikey DaPikey]

Solstice Greetings to you all as well

 

[Shambling Shaman]

Bless Be to all
Looking forward to my Yule dinner

 

[Womble]

heh - according to the BBC the solstice isn't until tomorrow... http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/wiltshire/6199671.stm

and these people seem to back this up:http://scienceworld.wolfram.com/astronomy/WinterSolstice.html

And this chart in Wikipedia... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solstice

 

[Bushpig]

Ya solstice is tomorrow as far as I am aware. These things have official dates and astronomical dates I believe so there can be descrepancies. Ancient folk used to count there days from sundown also ( i think ? ). I plan on waking 2moz and heading for dartmoor for sunrise

BBoooooooshpig

 

[janiepopps]

Cool Yule to you all.

Bring on the mulled wine...

j

 

[Toddy]

There are generally three days when the moon can be considered *full* though astronomically it's truly only for a very brief window. Similarly this is Solstice. In our overcast skies
Funnily enough I've been getting well wished for it for the past two days and the last celebration I'm going to is tomorrow night......whatever ........hope it's fun folks

Cheers,
Toddy

 

[Thrym]

Winter solstice is today i think. It was the 21st last year i went out on my bike for a ride some really thick fog rather nippy aswel. have a good yule everyone time to think about the year to come over the next 11 nights *and drink lots
Josh

 

[Bushpig]

The table in the wiki link posted by Womble illustrates that the day varies from 21st to 2nd depending on the year.

Repeat link for sake of ease

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solstice

 

[Fluxus]

well its a pea souper this morning so I'm glad I had a good one yesterday. No red face here ( and I'm not a hippy either!).

 

[Toddy]

Yeah, dawn was a dull grey pink here Took forever to lighten up so I lit some candles to sort of encourage it along
I burnt off some of the bog myrtle cones that I'd used for tincture and they smelled wonderful. Definitely something to be mixed with waxed cones/ faggots for a small fire.

I like the seasonal round, I like being *aware* of it. Now I know the dark of the year is going to lift and the days will get longer ( and colder for a bit) there's a fresh energy to things; I might actually wake up and do something Like a lot of folks at this time of year I don't get depressed, but I do sort of hibernate

Cheers,
Toddy

 

[Bushpig]

Well I was awake for it, anyone else ?

Check the pics on my forum :

http://www.spiritgarden.co.uk/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=1352&sid=e3175c21ffed3bfe616baf853d9be942



Boooshpig

 

[gregorach]

I like the seasonal round, I like being *aware* of it. Now I know the dark of the year is going to lift and the days will get longer ( and colder for a bit) there's a fresh energy to things; I might actually wake up and do something Like a lot of folks at this time of year I don't get depressed, but I do sort of hibernate

Yeah, I know exactly what you mean there... Although for myself, I always seem to feel Imbolc more of a turning point than the winter solstice.

Still, whatever day you reckon the solstice really is, we've definitely had it now!

Cool yule to all!

 

[Shambling Shaman]

Yeah, I know exactly what you mean there... Although for myself, I always seem to feel Imbolc more of a turning point than the winter solstice.

Still, whatever day you reckon the solstice really is, we've definitely had it now!

Cool yule to all!

Gets my vote - do have my New year on Samhain.